Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 gigabytes (240 bytes).
- noun One trillion bytes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a
tebibyte .SI symbol:TB . - noun computing, colloquial Imprecisely, a
tebibyte or 10244 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes.SI symbol:TiB , computing symbol:TB .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
Etymologies
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Examples
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It also doesn’t make a distinction between buying bandwidth for pages delivered from the server and buying bandwidth to deliver content hosted on the CDN — a terabyte is a terabyte says Dutt.
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It also doesn’t make a distinction between buying bandwidth for pages delivered from the server and buying bandwidth to deliver content hosted on the CDN — a terabyte is a terabyte says Dutt.
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For 500 gigabytes it’s $299, and one terabyte is $499.
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For 500 gigabytes it’s $299, and one terabyte is $499.
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To make prices more transparent, each user gets bandwidth of one terabyte, which is more than most need, he added.
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To make prices more transparent, each user gets bandwidth of one terabyte, which is more than most need, he added.
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To make prices more transparent, each user gets bandwidth of one terabyte, which is more than most need, he added.
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But I already have plenty of storage (hey, the box comes with half a terabyte, which is more than I'll need for photo and music files for a very long time).
MSDN Blogs 2008
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But in one day I have rediscovered the world inside my own terabyte which is closer to two right about now.
Cobb 2009
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But in one day I have rediscovered the world inside my own terabyte which is closer to two right about now.
Cobb 2009
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